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#Mail

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Steal this postal idea

I was thinking about how much fun it was to get mail as a kid. These days, it is all bills and Kafkaesque forms from the government, which gave me an idea.

What if there was some sort of inexpensive subscription service where you got a nice or fun letter in the snail-mail post each month? Maybe customised for you in some way. Perhaps also some postcards from random parts of the world.

Perhaps when you sign up for a year of nice mail, you could opt in to a postcard exchange. Opted-in people would get their postal address added to a handful of nice letters with a prompt to maybe send them a postcard. Thus, subscribers would get nice things by post from the service and also from other people who like sending cool local postcards.

For added niceness, opt-ed in people could get a birthday mention. Or put on the postcard part of all the letters.

Something like that anyway. There would have to be an opt-in component because I’d not be happy sharing my address otherwise.

#letters#mail#post

Je viens de recevoir un mail de quelqu'un qui me félicite d'avoir quitté Instagram pour Mastodon et me propose d'augmenter mon nombre de followers sur insta dans la foulée, moyennant finances. Sur l'adresse mail du THUG. Anyone else ? #instagram #mail

With all Apple's Mail apps now having the ability to categorise emails, I have some thoughts:

On macOS, the UI is atrocious. The All Mail button remains a stub at the edge of the sidebar, no matter how wide the sidebar is. The sidebar width changes to accomodate the button label when you change tabs.
On iOS and iPadOS, the setting to show the count of all unread emails is hidden many levels deep in the Settings app.

Does anyone at Apple use this app?

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»Gmail Gets End-To-End Encryption From Google As 21'st Birthday Present:
[…] Google Claims To Have Invented An Entirely New Type Of Encryption For Gmail Users […]«

This is not an April joke and yes Google offers OpenPGP for Gmail Accounts. This is not difficult to set up but too many people are too lazy in my opinion.

📧 forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2

ForbesGmail Gets End-To-End Encryption From Google As 21st Birthday PresentAs Gmail turns 21, Google has announced it is bringing end-to-end encryption to the email party. Here's what you need to know.
#e2ee#openpgp#email

Oh, Apple… On iOS 18.4 (at least in the EU) you enable mail categorization by default and collapse emails from the same sender all at the same time? And you don’t sync mail categorization preferences to the Mac? (Or at least, it doesn’t work on my devices). Is this an April Fool’s joke?

#apple#ios#mail